21 Facts About NIH

The majority of NIH facilities are located in Bethesda, Maryland, and other nearby suburbs of the Washington metropolitan area, with other primary facilities in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina and smaller satellite facilities located around the United States.

In 2019, the NIH was ranked number two in the world, behind Harvard University, for biomedical sciences in the Nature Index, which measured the largest contributors to papers published in a subset of leading journals from 2015 to 2018.

In 1937, NIH absorbed the rest of the Division of Scientific Research, of which it was formerly part.

The NIH was a major source of funding for Southam's research and had required all research involving human subjects to obtain their consent prior to any experimentation.

That same year, the NIH director lobbied the White House for increased federal funding in order to increase research and the speed with which health benefits could be brought to the people.

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Funding for the NIH has often been a source of contention in Congress, serving as a proxy for the political currents of the time.

In 1992, the NIH encompassed nearly 1 percent of the federal government's operating budget and controlled more than 50 percent of all funding for health research, and 85 percent of all funding for health studies in universities.

The NIH Director plays an active role in shaping the agency's activities and outlook.

In FY 2010, NIH spent on clinical research, on genetics-related research, on prevention research, on cancer, and on biotechnology.

In 2008 a Congressional mandate called for investigators funded by the NIH to submit an electronic version of their final manuscripts to the National Library of Medicine's research repository, PubMed Central, no later than 12 months after the official date of publication.

One study found NIH funding aided either directly or indirectly in developing the drugs or drug targets for all of the 210 FDA-approved drugs from 2010 to 2016.

NIH partnered with Moderna in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop a vaccine.

Under political pressure, the NIH withdrew funding to EcoHealth Alliance in July 2020.

NIH submits its budget request to the Department of Health and Human Services, and the HHS considers this request as a portion of its budget.

Funding for the NIH has often been a source of contention in Congress, serving as a proxy for the political currents of the time.

The political contention over NIH funding slowed the nation's response to the AIDS epidemic; while AIDS was reported in newspaper articles from 1981, no funding was provided for research on the disease.

In 1992, the NIH encompassed nearly 1 percent of the federal government's operating budget and controlled more than 50 percent of all funding for health research and 85 percent of all funding for health studies in universities.

NIH employs five broad decision criteria in its funding policy.

In 2014, it was announced that the NIH is directing scientists to perform their experiments with both female and male animals, or cells derived from females as well as males if they are studying cell cultures, and that the NIH would take the balance of each study design into consideration when awarding grants.

The NIH has recently attempted to approve more first-time NIH R01 applicants or the research grant applications of young scientists.

NIH is composed of 27 separate institutes and centers that conduct and coordinate research across different disciplines of biomedical science.